More than 100 police, fire and EMS personnel — along with volunteers from San Antonio and Austin — searched all day Saturday for an 18-month-old boy missing in New Braunfels since Friday night.

Police were summoned shortly before 8:40 p.m. Friday and told Joshua Davis Jr. had last been seen inside his parents' mobile home in the 2600 block of Savannah Hill Circle about 20 minutes earlier.

The child was described as 2 feet tall and 30 pounds. He was last seen wearing a blue and red long-sleeve shirt, a gray long-sleeve T-shirt, beige jeans and black and white socks.

“The child appears to be very mobile, and the fear is that he may have just wandered off,” said New Braunfels police Lt. Michael Penshorn.

The boy's father, Joshua Davis Sr., told police his son could have slipped out the door when a friend left the family's home during a basketball game. Davis said his son likes “to run around the house, from the living room to the other rooms, back and forth.”

But “he does not wander off like that. He usually stays inside the yard and plays with his toys,” said Davis, 23. “We searched everywhere around the house, the cabinets, under the couches, even the high spots we knew he couldn't climb to.”

Investigators said they had found no signs of foul play but were concerned for Joshua's safety.

“We are trying to be optimistic, but it was very cold last night,” Penshorn said Saturday afternoon.

The home and vehicles of a registered sex offender living across the street from the boy's family were searched, but no connection was found to the boy's disappearance, Penshorn added.

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Law enforcement remained on-site overnight, Penshorn said.

Early Saturday, aided by volunteers from the San Antonio-based Heidi Search Center, Alamo Area Search and Rescue and Travis County Search and Rescue units, local authorities expanded the search area to an open field and nearby woods, he said.

Residents from across the county came to help look for the boy and plastered fliers with his image throughout the city. They offered their support and prayers to Davis and his girlfriend, 21-year-old Sabrina Benitez, the missing boy's mother.

“If it was my kid, I would want people out here,” said Mandy Lorance, 30, a search volunteer and a mother of two. “That is why I came out.”

At the boy's home, a tearful Benitez exchanged embraces with loved ones.

“I just want my baby back,” she said. “I just want him to be safe.”

Anyone who finds Joshua or who knows of his whereabouts is asked to contact New Braunfels police at 830-221-4100.

Trellis Carson, 72, waited outside the home with other relatives. A longtime family friend, he said he knew the couple since they were born and could relate to their pain because he had lost a child of his own.

“You never get over that loss; you just never get over it,” said Carson, whose month-old baby girl died of a medical condition. “I'm just hoping everything turns out all right.”